5,000 Miles to Freedom: Ellen and William Craft's Flight from Slavery
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What would it take for slaves to escape from slavery in the Deep South, 1,000 miles from freedom and then on to England during the period of the Fugitive Slave Act? For most slaves...
National Geographic Society
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A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw
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An ALA Notable Book.
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Farrar Straus Giroux
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A Song for Cambodia
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The true story of Arn Chorn-Pond, Cambodian American musician and human rights activist, who as a young boy survived Khmer Rouge work camps by learning to play a musical instrument...
Lee & Low Books
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A Voice of Her Own: A Story of Phillis Wheatley, Slave Poet
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Now available in paperback--the moving story of the first African-American woman poet is compellingly told by Lasky and brought to life with powerful illustrations by Lee. Full col...
Candlewick Press (MA)
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Arthur Ashe: Young Tennis Champion
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Growing up in the racially divided South, young Arthur Ashe decided he would one day play sports on courts that did not allow black athletes. Ashe later became the first African-Am...
Aladdin Paperbacks
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Bowman's Store: A Journey to Myself
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The author shares in this memoir how he came to fully understand, and eventually claim, his Native American heritage, despite his grandparents' unspoken pact to never discuss Grand...
Lee & Low Books
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China: The Culture
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This new edition of China: the Culture features the ancient traditions alongside more modern pastimes. New topics include: the growth of the Chinese film industry, and how a capita...
Crabtree Publishing Company
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Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
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"A riveting memoir of a girl's painful coming-of-age in a wealthy Chinese family during the 1940s.
A Chinese proverb says, "Falling leaves return to their roots." In "Chinese C...
Laurel-Leaf Books
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Coming Home
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Writer Langston Hughes is an inspiration for youth everywhere. Now children can discover the young Langston and the events and circumstances that shaped his extraordinary life. Flo...
Putnam Publishing Group
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Cosechando Esperanza: La Historia de Cesar Chavez / Harvesting Hope
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The true story of Cesar Chavez, a shy boy who grew up to be one of America's greatest civil rights leaders, is told in this picture book biography, now available in this Spanish la...
Libros Viajeros
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Dancing to Freedom: The True Story of Mao's Last Dancer
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Selected to study ballet at the Beijing Dance Academy during Mao's Cultural Revolution, Li Cunxin knew that his dance success was his family's only escape from poverty. In the 1970...
Walker & Company
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Dare to Dream: Coretta Scott King and the Civil Rights Movement
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Dare to Dream chronicles the vision and life of Coretta Scott King, wife of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and provides young readers with a clear, concise chronology of the civil rig...
Puffin Books
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Double Luck: Memoirs of a Chinese Orphan
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An orphan in China in 1944 when he was three years old, Chi Fa found a way to make his dreams of freedom come true. Chronology and family tree....
Holiday House
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Dreaming in Color Living in Black and White: Our Own Stories of Growing Up Black in America
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These true stories from every part of America tell what it was like growing up in a world where the color of people's skin set them apart.How do you feel when a teacher doesn't ...
Simon Pulse
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East Side Dreams
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As you read East Side Dreams you will experience with Art Rodriguez the difficult time he had growing up, and part of this was dealing with his father. This book will make your emo...
Dream House Press
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